Let's try for a less wasteful year in 2014

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2:52 PM,
Dec. 28, 2013

Written by

Alessia Leathers
Special to news-press.com

An average of 1,600 pounds. That's the amount of waste I might have generated by the end of this year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To put it into perspective, this waste equals the weight of an adult male polar bear.

However, I might need to add another full size bear into the equation.

While the EPA estimates that each person in the U.S. generates about 4.4 pounds of trash a day, based mainly on industry-provided data on product sales, the trade journal BioCycle, in collaboration with Columbia University, indicates that 7 pounds a day is a more accurate number if the ...